Claude Lorrain, (Claude Gelee, ca. 1600 - 1682), a baroque French painter
Lorrain is a language spoken by a minority of people in Lorraine in France and in Gaume in Belgium. ... Seaport by Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (Lorraine, c1604 - Rome, November 23, 1682) was a French painter, active in 17th century Italy, and considered a great Baroque landscape painters. ...
However, the dukes of Upper Lorraine gradually came to be known simply as the dukes of Lorraine, because the significance of the Lower duchy declined greatly in the latter half of the eleventh century.
Lorraine, after siding with the Emperor in the Thirty Years' War, was largely occupied by France in 1641.
With Stanislas's death in 1766, the long independent history of the Duchy of Lorraine came to an end, and the Duchy was annexed to France.
With the loss of the imperial title and the waning of Carolingian influence, the kingdom lost territories and came under the rule of a duke, thereby reducing the former kingdom to a duchy.
Lorraine became part of France in 1766 and was reorganized by the French government.
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